Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-02
RAILROAD BOND PETITION.
To the Honorable Board Of County Com
nliSSionoTS OF The County Of Barber, IN
the State of Kansas:


nliSSionCrs of The County Of Barber, IN
the State of Kansas:
The undersigned, being moro than two-fifths
o. the resident taxpayers of Lake City town
ship, or the county of Barber in the state oS
Kansas, respectfully pray your honorable body
to submit to the qualified electors Of said town
ship, proposition to subscribe Twenty-Five
Thousand Dollars t. the capital stock of the
Kansas and Panhandle Railroad Company, a
corporation created and existing under aud by
virtue OF the laws of the state OF Kansas, which
proposes to construct a line of railroad into
and through said township, and that in pay
ment for said subscription of said stock, bonds
of said township shall be issued in sums OF
One THOUSAND Dollars each. payable in Thirty
! ears from date OF issue, with interest pay9-
bic semi-annually, ut the rate of per cent. per
annum, on the first day of January and the
first day of July, of each and every year, until
said principal shall become due; and said
bonds shall have attached thereto, semi-an-
nual interest coupons: and the said bonds,
doth principal and interestJ snail be payable
ut the fiscal agency o. the state of Kansas. in
York.
And the conditions ON which said subscrip-
ton TO the capital stock shall be made, are,
that the said Railroad Company shall construct
and operate and maintain said railroad OF n
standard gauge, from some point on the north
or east slde OF SAID township, ana running
thence through said township, and have the
same in operation on or before the 3lst day of
December, A. d., 1887; aud erect and maintain
depots and stations in said township, as fol-
lows, to-wit: Within one-half al mile OF the
crossing of Main and Seminary streets, in the
town OF Lake City.
And we further pray that you order a Special
Election, to be held in said township. in pur-
suance of chapter l01 of the laws of 1876. and
the acts of the legislature of the state of Kan
sas amendatory thereof, TO vote upon the
question of subscribing for said stock as
aforesaid. And the form of the ballots to be
used at such election, and fer such PROPOSE
ton be:
"For Subscription to Stock of the Kansas
and Panhandle Railroad Company"
And those against such proposition to he:
Against Subscription to Stock of the Kansas
and Panhandle Railroad Company"
And whereas said Board of County Commits
sioners have examined said petition and it hav-
| ing been shown to the satisfaction of said
Board that the said petition has been signed py
more than two-fifths of the resident taX-pay.
| ers in said township. and is in the form pre-
scribed by law and is in all respects regular and
| legal, and said Board so finds and declares
| Now, therefore, pursuant to the prayer of said
| petition, and the statutes in such case made
and provided it is hereby ordered by the Board
| of County Commissioners OF said county, that
/ II Special Election be held at the usual voting
| places in said TOWNSHIP. on
WEDNESDAY, THE 23D DAY OF FEBRUARY
A. D., 1887, at which said Election the
proposition set forth In the hereinbefore
/ recited petition, which petition. with the
| signatures thereto omitted, is hereby made
| a part of this order. shall be submitted to the
| legally qualified voters of said township. fol
| their decision by ballot.
| And it is further ordered, by said Board OF
| County Commissioners, that the Sheriff of said
| county make due proclamation to the voters OF
| said township of the holding of said Election
| at the time aud places aforesaid. by publishing
1 the same for thirty days or more, next pre-
ceding the day of holding said Election, In
some newspaper published IN said county, anC
having a general circulation in said township
and that in said proclamation said Sheriff SCI
| forth the above and foregoing order and recite
/ said petition therein.
| In witness whereof, we the undersigned
| chairman and members of the Board of COun
! ty Commissioners, of the County of Barber
state of Kansas, have hereunto set our hands
County Seat OF said County, this 18th, day OF
January, A. ID. 1887.
| JOHN MCGRATH, Commissioner,
! j. ID. FLEMING, Commissioner.
AS attest, my signature and Seal of saiC
| Barber County, hereto affixed this 18th day
lsEALi ROBERT j. TALIAFERRo,
County Clerk of Barber, County, State Of
Now therefore, I, Charles D. Nelson. Sheriff
| OF Barber County, Kansas. under and by viz
| ture of the foregoing order of the Board OF
| County Commissioners of said County, and the
authority In me vested by law as such Sheriff
| there will be held a Special Election of the
| qualified voters of Lake City Township, in saic
County, at the usual voting places in sait
/ ruary, A. ID. 1887, upon the proposition IA SCI
! forth in tho said order of said Board of COUNTY
Commissioners of said County of Barber, Kan
1 sas, and I'm the manner and form set forth and
| that said Election will be held. the returns
/ made and the result ascertained in the same
manner as is provided by law for general Elec
| tons.
Done at my office IN the City of Medicin,
| Lodge. in said County of Barber, this nth day
OF January, A. ID. 1887.
Sheriff Of Barber County, kans.
BY wM. LINDSEY,
Under Sheriff.